I'm too stupid to even be able to make a smart ass joke about this article. Uh, does this mean reruns of Quantum Leap? (Must... try... harder...) 2D or not 2D, that is the question... Wait, maybe I've got it... "Artificial" flat... after years of artificial big, the new sub-genre of pr0n is artificial flat... I'll miss my karma, I suppose...
This makes me want to puke. Rita and Katrina screwed us up good, we're in no way rebuilt and this is what our legislature gives us. The same folks that damn near tripled their pay last week. I, for one, thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster I don't have to worry about this as a teacher in a private school. My geography class starts out with the Big Bang, as does my world history class. If we're gonna talk God done dooed it, might as well talk Xenu, Inzanami and FSM...
Uh, way to leave out the whole picture there, Sparky.
ACLU Executive Director Marjorie Esman said that if the Act is utilized as written, it should be fine; though she is not sure it will be handled that way.
'I think there's a lot of room for things to get sneaked into the classrooms that shouldn't be there,' she said.
What about the fact that those with "bad boy" traits might be FAR MORE LIKELY to lie their asses off about the number or partners, number of encounters, etc to make themselves look good? Think some jerk is going to tell some research dweeb, "Dude, I don't get laid, it's all an act..." ? No way! "Dude, I get laid 10 times a day, I'm on the edge, I'm cool, chicks dig me." No doubt, bad guys tend to have more of an edge, appear cooler and may get more chicks, sure. But how much of this is hubris on the part of the participants?
I am no perfect teacher, nor am I claiming to be an expert. I do teach middle schoolers (ages 10-13 at my school) and I try to show and teach them on a daily basis to question the world around them. Why do things happen? What really is cause and effect? What are the other options? What happens if we do this? (A great question not just for science) As a social studies teacher I get the "Why are we in Iraq?" question all the time. It gets difficult at times not to jump on a soapbox, so instead, in my best Socratic questioning, I ask the kids to look at the situation. Is this good? Is this bad? How do we stop terrorism? If it's broke, how can we fix it? If we're wrong (hard to say with a straight face!)what can we learn so as not to do this again? How should we solve problems?
While I will admit I try to encourage skepticism about things like warrantless wiretaps, Gitmo, PATRIOT ACT (from a Constitutional viewpoint, as yesterday shows us, these programs are open to more than one interpretation) I hope that getting the kids to look at our (US) government policies leads them to ask themselves if they agree, if they "work", if they disagree, what else we could do, etc. Devil's advocate is a useful tool for me and I hope by presenting different views and getting them to think it over for themselves they can form their own opinions. I realize at age 10 this is near impossible as abstract thinking skills just aren't there yet, but the 7th graders can handle quite a bit of these topics and I only hope they are walking away with the ability to question their world in a meaningful way.
So to teach skepticism I actively look back at U.S. history (and world history) and get them to question why we did what we did. What were the outcomes? What were the motivations? Why did this happen? Could things have been different? If I wanted them to parrot God Bless America and engage in hero worship of their leaders, I guess I could teach things much differently, and in effect REMOVE all skepticism... but that's not teaching, that's conditioning. While I admit all teaching really is conditioning, I hope they condition themselves more than spit back my opinions, which I try to mask with varying degrees of success. Does it work? Guess we'll have to wait and see:)
Not going for flamebait here... What if I have a pair of antique ivory chopsticks bought a long, long time ago and I wish to sell them on eBay to a U.S. customer? That is legal, correct? So why punish all of us wishing to use eBay for legal purposes? Wait, I can get drugs, prostitutes and many other illegal goods and services, so shut the whole thing down? Stopping people from legitimate uses in order to halt illegal ones seems to be a slippery slope. I am actually all for stopping modern trade in modern ivory, but to ban something the law allows sounds like censorship to appease a cause.
OK, so we fat people eat more than normal. Fine. What about all those skinny people decked out in gold head to toe? Wanna discuss the amount or resources and land raping required to satisfy the world's gold hunger? Hummers use far more fuel REGARDLESS of how fat the person inside is. What about jet travel? All those skinny jet setters burning up our precious resources... To say it's only obese people is a joke. Try it's ALL of the resources that are consumed by our modern society, not just the food. Hell, how much extra energy goes into producing high quality veal, caviar, champagne, DIAMONDS ffs, and other luxury goods. Why not look at that. Poor and fat is most likely a far LESS of an impact that rich, gaudy and skinny.
"When was the last time a ship landed on someone's house?"
KATRINA to answer your question. LOTS of ships, boats, barges and other craft landed over holy hell amounts of "land" property. As for the issues of a space lawyer, if you think private space travel and space tourism will not create new cases for law, you are mistaken. What happens when Virgin Galactic runs into a Chinese spy satellite? I know this sounds silly, but someone has to get to the nitty gritty of working on such a case. As for letting maritime law govern space I would also like to point out that the fricken oceans and SPACE are very different and that should be obvious to even we basement dwelling subterranean types.
Using Google Earth to zoom in on cities of the world I print out a "snapshot," usually showing a key feature of a city; building, river, coastline, etc. I put it on the board and the kids get three guess each (a day) to figure out which city it is. They eat it up, often begging me to print up a new city as I get to school. Not really a "video game" but a use of amazingly cool software. For this instance, and perhaps it's true for using actual games, it is the competition of winning, of being the first to get the city that is driving many of my kids. I wonder how much the desire to win drives the "fun" behind academic video games.
"Attack is the best defense" did not work for Germany in the 2nd world war. It didn't work in Vietnam or Korea. It's certainly not working for the US at the moment.
True, didn't work so well for the U.S. recently. But I'd say the whole conquering of North and South America (Spain, England, France and later as the US pushed to the Pacific) went VERY well for the offensive crowd. Not to be rude, but look at the Plains War for "success" with offense first (In no way am I saying that was GOOD for the US to do, but it was effective in terms of military success.)
Always marry an ugly girl, that's the only kind. She'll never ever leave you, and if she does you won't mind.
Let's not forget, ugly girls need lovin', too! But then again, discussing sex with women on slashdot is like discussing Ubuntu with your grandmother... neither party knows what the hell is going on...
The Feds will never care, the White House will never care as it seems most people in the U.S. don't care about this issue. Without outrage we'll never see an improvement. "Catching" bad guys is what they think they're doing and no adjustment will be made from within. Sadly, it will most likely never become a major issue, though it most certainly should.
Space based weapons? Not aiming for flamebait here. If we had a weapon system deployed in that sucker (which I'm pretty sure is rather possible, a big treaty no-no most likely) wouldn't it be a nice way to make sure no evidence fell to earth by toasting the "bus sized" satellite? I wouldn't imagine there are too many ways to get busted over putting weapons into space. Having one fall to earth, however, might be a very simple way to get caught. Crazy conspiracy theory? Maybe, just a thought.
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Well, a fight with gravity maybe. Gravity tends to win, especially when taking down baked stoners.
Guess I can't say... first....
I'm too stupid to even be able to make a smart ass joke about this article. Uh, does this mean reruns of Quantum Leap? (Must... try... harder...) 2D or not 2D, that is the question... Wait, maybe I've got it... "Artificial" flat... after years of artificial big, the new sub-genre of pr0n is artificial flat... I'll miss my karma, I suppose...
This makes me want to puke. Rita and Katrina screwed us up good, we're in no way rebuilt and this is what our legislature gives us. The same folks that damn near tripled their pay last week. I, for one, thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster I don't have to worry about this as a teacher in a private school. My geography class starts out with the Big Bang, as does my world history class. If we're gonna talk God done dooed it, might as well talk Xenu, Inzanami and FSM...
Uh, way to leave out the whole picture there, Sparky.
ACLU Executive Director Marjorie Esman said that if the Act is utilized as written, it should be fine; though she is not sure it will be handled that way. 'I think there's a lot of room for things to get sneaked into the classrooms that shouldn't be there,' she said.
What about the fact that those with "bad boy" traits might be FAR MORE LIKELY to lie their asses off about the number or partners, number of encounters, etc to make themselves look good? Think some jerk is going to tell some research dweeb, "Dude, I don't get laid, it's all an act..." ? No way! "Dude, I get laid 10 times a day, I'm on the edge, I'm cool, chicks dig me." No doubt, bad guys tend to have more of an edge, appear cooler and may get more chicks, sure. But how much of this is hubris on the part of the participants?
Or apply liberal salt? (sorry, had to :) )
I am no perfect teacher, nor am I claiming to be an expert. I do teach middle schoolers (ages 10-13 at my school) and I try to show and teach them on a daily basis to question the world around them. Why do things happen? What really is cause and effect? What are the other options? What happens if we do this? (A great question not just for science) As a social studies teacher I get the "Why are we in Iraq?" question all the time. It gets difficult at times not to jump on a soapbox, so instead, in my best Socratic questioning, I ask the kids to look at the situation. Is this good? Is this bad? How do we stop terrorism? If it's broke, how can we fix it? If we're wrong (hard to say with a straight face!)what can we learn so as not to do this again? How should we solve problems?
:)
While I will admit I try to encourage skepticism about things like warrantless wiretaps, Gitmo, PATRIOT ACT (from a Constitutional viewpoint, as yesterday shows us, these programs are open to more than one interpretation) I hope that getting the kids to look at our (US) government policies leads them to ask themselves if they agree, if they "work", if they disagree, what else we could do, etc. Devil's advocate is a useful tool for me and I hope by presenting different views and getting them to think it over for themselves they can form their own opinions. I realize at age 10 this is near impossible as abstract thinking skills just aren't there yet, but the 7th graders can handle quite a bit of these topics and I only hope they are walking away with the ability to question their world in a meaningful way.
So to teach skepticism I actively look back at U.S. history (and world history) and get them to question why we did what we did. What were the outcomes? What were the motivations? Why did this happen? Could things have been different? If I wanted them to parrot God Bless America and engage in hero worship of their leaders, I guess I could teach things much differently, and in effect REMOVE all skepticism... but that's not teaching, that's conditioning. While I admit all teaching really is conditioning, I hope they condition themselves more than spit back my opinions, which I try to mask with varying degrees of success. Does it work? Guess we'll have to wait and see
Not going for flamebait here... What if I have a pair of antique ivory chopsticks bought a long, long time ago and I wish to sell them on eBay to a U.S. customer? That is legal, correct? So why punish all of us wishing to use eBay for legal purposes? Wait, I can get drugs, prostitutes and many other illegal goods and services, so shut the whole thing down? Stopping people from legitimate uses in order to halt illegal ones seems to be a slippery slope. I am actually all for stopping modern trade in modern ivory, but to ban something the law allows sounds like censorship to appease a cause.
Nor who they were, or what... they were doing. Oh the little people of Fascismhenge...
Oh my, the soon to be most searched "name" on the web is... Jenna Jameson! Wait a minute, I think I misunderstood "facial" recognition...
OK, so we fat people eat more than normal. Fine. What about all those skinny people decked out in gold head to toe? Wanna discuss the amount or resources and land raping required to satisfy the world's gold hunger? Hummers use far more fuel REGARDLESS of how fat the person inside is. What about jet travel? All those skinny jet setters burning up our precious resources... To say it's only obese people is a joke. Try it's ALL of the resources that are consumed by our modern society, not just the food. Hell, how much extra energy goes into producing high quality veal, caviar, champagne, DIAMONDS ffs, and other luxury goods. Why not look at that. Poor and fat is most likely a far LESS of an impact that rich, gaudy and skinny.
"When was the last time a ship landed on someone's house?"
KATRINA to answer your question. LOTS of ships, boats, barges and other craft landed over holy hell amounts of "land" property. As for the issues of a space lawyer, if you think private space travel and space tourism will not create new cases for law, you are mistaken. What happens when Virgin Galactic runs into a Chinese spy satellite? I know this sounds silly, but someone has to get to the nitty gritty of working on such a case. As for letting maritime law govern space I would also like to point out that the fricken oceans and SPACE are very different and that should be obvious to even we basement dwelling subterranean types.
Using Google Earth to zoom in on cities of the world I print out a "snapshot," usually showing a key feature of a city; building, river, coastline, etc. I put it on the board and the kids get three guess each (a day) to figure out which city it is. They eat it up, often begging me to print up a new city as I get to school. Not really a "video game" but a use of amazingly cool software. For this instance, and perhaps it's true for using actual games, it is the competition of winning, of being the first to get the city that is driving many of my kids. I wonder how much the desire to win drives the "fun" behind academic video games.
True, didn't work so well for the U.S. recently. But I'd say the whole conquering of North and South America (Spain, England, France and later as the US pushed to the Pacific) went VERY well for the offensive crowd. Not to be rude, but look at the Plains War for "success" with offense first (In no way am I saying that was GOOD for the US to do, but it was effective in terms of military success.)
Always marry an ugly girl, that's the only kind. She'll never ever leave you, and if she does you won't mind. Let's not forget, ugly girls need lovin', too! But then again, discussing sex with women on slashdot is like discussing Ubuntu with your grandmother... neither party knows what the hell is going on...
I for one welcome our new Chinese Smurf Decathlete Overlords!
Como se dice "I'm gonna bust a cap in your drone" en Espanol? How much small arms fire can that sucker take?
Cuberty sucks! It is a painful, awkward phase in one's career. No wonder you are so concerned...
The Feds will never care, the White House will never care as it seems most people in the U.S. don't care about this issue. Without outrage we'll never see an improvement. "Catching" bad guys is what they think they're doing and no adjustment will be made from within. Sadly, it will most likely never become a major issue, though it most certainly should.
Space based weapons? Not aiming for flamebait here. If we had a weapon system deployed in that sucker (which I'm pretty sure is rather possible, a big treaty no-no most likely) wouldn't it be a nice way to make sure no evidence fell to earth by toasting the "bus sized" satellite? I wouldn't imagine there are too many ways to get busted over putting weapons into space. Having one fall to earth, however, might be a very simple way to get caught. Crazy conspiracy theory? Maybe, just a thought.
well done :)
Strong encryption for guns? or the well regulated militia? You did say Second Amendment after all...
"The Egypt's..." is that like the Iraq, and such as?
These people CLEARLY qualify for jobs working on the White House archive team... Just following the example of our dear leaders, I suspect.